Well it's New Year - 2016 has arrived. HAPPY NEW YEAR whoever reads this blog :)
Have been thinking lately about the Health and Wealth gospel and how their interpretation of claiming your inheritance now is so wrong!
What is the inheritance? Is it really to be claimed now?
What is the inheritance?
If you read Ephesians 1, the apostle Paul mentions our inheritance there
verse 11: In Him we have obtained an inheritance...
Verses 13,14: In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance, until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.
But if we read the verses surrounding those, we read phrases like:
v.4 just as He chose us in Him...holy and without blame...
v.5 Having predestined us to adoption...
v.6 ...He made us accepted in the Beloved
v.7 redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins...
v.9 having made known to us the mystery of His will...
v.10 ...that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times, He might gather together in one, all things, in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth - in Him.
Now v.10 could be used as justification for thinking Paul meant material possessions, but Jesus Christ said in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6:19-21)
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasure in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Our treasure is not in earthly things, but Spiritual things. Our inheritance is for when Christ returns, it's not for now!
As inheritance is always for the future, unless you're the Prodigal Son, wanting his father dead so that he could gain what was owed him (as he implied).
I'm going to try and expand on this over time, because I'm sure there's a lot more I could say about this.
Have been thinking lately about the Health and Wealth gospel and how their interpretation of claiming your inheritance now is so wrong!
What is the inheritance? Is it really to be claimed now?
What is the inheritance?
If you read Ephesians 1, the apostle Paul mentions our inheritance there
verse 11: In Him we have obtained an inheritance...
Verses 13,14: In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance, until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.
But if we read the verses surrounding those, we read phrases like:
v.4 just as He chose us in Him...holy and without blame...
v.5 Having predestined us to adoption...
v.6 ...He made us accepted in the Beloved
v.7 redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins...
v.9 having made known to us the mystery of His will...
v.10 ...that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times, He might gather together in one, all things, in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth - in Him.
Now v.10 could be used as justification for thinking Paul meant material possessions, but Jesus Christ said in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6:19-21)
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasure in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Our treasure is not in earthly things, but Spiritual things. Our inheritance is for when Christ returns, it's not for now!
As inheritance is always for the future, unless you're the Prodigal Son, wanting his father dead so that he could gain what was owed him (as he implied).
I'm going to try and expand on this over time, because I'm sure there's a lot more I could say about this.
